Flores is derived from the Portuguese word meaning “flowers”. The story brings us back to 1544. There was a Portuguese boat sailing from Jayakarta or Batavia which is Jakarta today to Mollucas for spices purposes. They had a problem with their boat caused some of the boat-men had to check the bottom of the boat, [...]
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